Kaname
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kaname has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1920. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% boys, 24% girls all-time.
Babies named Kaname, 2024
1 in 669,000
Kaname over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Kaname over time
In 2024, Kaname went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Kaname?
Kaname had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kaname sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kaname. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kanames were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kaname was born before 1924 — so the typical Kaname is around 101 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 68.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 68.8% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Kaname rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1920 (6)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Kaname
Kaname is not the most common spelling — Kane is, with 66.1% against Kaname's 0.05%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Kaname around the world
Where Kaname ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2012–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Kaname by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kaname
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kaname
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.